Lessons from afar
Distance-learning has not taken the world by storm. But it can be useful
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Remember “e-learning”? In the late 1990s it was widely thought that a sea change might be underway in education as more and more of it drifted online. In 2003 both the limits and potential of the internet for business education are becoming clearer. Many people do indeed want to sit down at their computers and take courses at their leisure; but they also want to see their teachers in the flesh.
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